"The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders."

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Source : Replying to whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains, in a letter from A. W. Cole to New York Times 25 August 1918

William Henry Vanderbilt

“And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.”
“The Secret is the Law of Attraction.”
“When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.”
“Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.”
“But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.”
“If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.”
“You expect success, you respect failure.”
“It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.”

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